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In 1945 Britain emerged from the most devastating war the world has ever seen. Though victorious, the country was severely in debt, had suffered major structural damage and was overshadowed, in terms of world status, by the rise of the superpowers. Yet the 20 years that followed were astonishingly successful. Eric Hobsbawn has called the 1950s and 1960s a “golden age” of prosperity and affluence. In this short, incisive guide, the historian Simon Abernethy tells the story of Britain after World War Two and asks: was Harold Macmillan right when he remarked in a famous speech that Britain “had never had it so good”?
ISBN- paperback: 978-1-911187-34-9
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Winston Churchill was the greatest wartime prime minister in Britain’s history. To his defenders he was not only the man who saved the West from the tyranny of Nazi Germany, but an exceptional human being, abounding in physical and moral courage, a genius who stood head and shoulders above his...
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There has never been agreement on how to understand the French Revolution, and probably never will be. It divided not only France, but all Europe, as soon as it began. The philosopher and statesman Edmund Burke, who had supported American independence, condemned it as something infinitely more dangerous, while his...
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Ever since the collapse of the Third Reich, historians have grappled with a fundamental question: how was such a brutal, genocidal dictatorship possible in a modern, cultured nation in the middle of the 20th century? There are essentially two competing views: one, that Hitler was an all-powerful dictator fully in...
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We all know Stalin, or at least we think we do. The Georgian student priest who grew up to be one of the 20th century’s most notorious mass-murderers is the subject of countless books and documentaries. Yet the man himself remains an enigma, dubbed by some as “history’s greatest butcher”...